Bug#650841: Same problem here ...

[Jeroen N. Witmond [Bahco]]

I'm having the same problem here ...

The complete and correct text of the pop-up is:

Could not initialize the package information

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include
the following error message:

'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages,
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.9
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                   2.22.0-1        GNOME configuration database
syste
ii  libgnome2-perl           1.042-1+b1      Perl interface to the GNOME
librar
ii  python                   2.5.2-3         An interactive high-level
object-o
ii  python-dbus              0.82.4-2        simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  python-glade2            2.12.1-6        GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2            2.22.0-1        Python bindings for the GNOME
desk
ii  python-support           0.8.4lenny2     automated rebuilding support
for P
ii  python-vte               1:0.16.14-4     Python bindings for the VTE
widget
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.60.debian-1.1 manage the repositories that
you i
ii  synaptic                 0.62.1+nmu1     Graphical package manager
ii  update-manager-core      0.68.debian-7   APT update manager core
functional

update-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages update-manager suggests:
ii  update-notifier          0.70.7.debian-5 Daemon which notifies about
packag

-- no debconf information